Watermelon Man (1970)
Directed by Melvin Van Peebles
A racist insurance agent lives in a typical suburban neighborhood, but his bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is turned upside down when his skin inexplicably turns dark overnight.
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Having established Wikus as prejudiced against the aliens, the inevitable change he undergoes becomes a sci-fi variant on the 1970 Melvin Van Peebles’ film Watermelon Man, in which a white racist (Godfrey Cambridge in white makeup) finds himself transformed into a black man (Godfrey Cambridge without makeup).
Hill, like Linklater, has an ear for a good soundtrack, sprinkling gems of the mid-1990s throughout “Mid90s,” but most impressive is his choice of mid-’70s fusion-jazz groove “Watermelon Man,” an A-side cut off Herbie Hancock’s mega-popular album “Head Hunters.”